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Art Rx
This is largely the week of the solo exhibition, but if you need get outside for a change, head to Rockaway Beach for artistic sandcastles.
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Who to Follow on Instagram: Art Edition
I adore Instagram, and while I'm still wondering how the Facebook acquisition will impact this jewel of a smartphone photo-sharing service, here are some art-related people, institutions and accounts you should follow to inject some arty content into the palm of your hand.
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Big Art in Chicago
CHICAGO — Navy Pier is the thing with the giant ferris wheel on it that juts out from Chicago's lakefront into Lake Michigan. It also plays host every year to an outdoor art installation of sculptures by international artists. This year features works by Antony Caro, Roy Lichtenstein, Nancy Rubins,
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Contemplating Kitsch in Provincetown
I would never have paid any attention to Kennedy Gallery and Studios if Michele hadn’t wanted to stop at Box Lunch, down the alley in the back. But she did. So I waited on Commercial Street with the bikes and found myself in front of the gallery actually looking at picture after picture of sunny ski
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The Sounds of Murder
The congregating of crows to mourn is part of the inspiration beind the flock of black box speakers in "The Murder of Crows," a disorienting sound installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller in the Park Avenue Armory.
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The Modernity of Giovanni Battista Moroni (1524–1578)
There are four portraits by Giovanni Battista Moroni (1524–1578) currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum, and each of them is a gem. Two are included in Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: Northern Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrarra, Bergamo (May 15–September 3), an exhibition of fifteen
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Stopping Time: The Quay Brothers at MoMA
Stephen and Timothy Quay became filmmakers entirely by accident. As Stephen recounted during the remarks that concluded the press preview for the artists’ retrospective, which opens tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art, they were on their way to Amsterdam to take jobs as illustrators when fate inter
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Art Rx
The doctor is in, and this week she's got you traversing the city — from Ridgewood to Red Hook, the Lower East Side to Harlem. Uptown there's a new show of work by Harlem artists; down in Dumbo, two street stencil artists share a gallery. Closing parties are also the thing, at Recess and Parallel Ar
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Why Weren't You in Wassaic This Weekend?
It was in 2008 that the first Wassaic Project Summer Festival was staged in the old mill by the railroad tracks in the hamlet of Wassaic, New York. Since that debut, each year has attracted more and more visitors for the three-day event, as well as increased engagement with the local community that
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Olafur Eliasson's Wow Opera House in Reykjavik
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Olafur Eliasson's stunning collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects on the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Iceland.
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These Art Critics Want Their Mommies
I'm not normally one for audio tours, but this afternoon the Museum of Modern Art posted about a brand new museum tour highlighting 31 wide-ranging works in its collection. The tour, titled MoMA Unadulterated, features sharp and incisive commentary on pieces by Marisol, Joseph Beuys, Alberto Giacome
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Creating Communal Space in Moscow
How much is one minute of your time worth? Two rubles (6 US cents), perhaps? That’s what the founders of Tsiferblat think. Tsiferblat, or “clockface” in English, refers to a set of open-to-the-public, almost-free spaces that have recently popped up all over Eastern Europe. The concept is quite simpl